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This American Life: The Magic Show Just a few years before This American Life host Ira Glass got the internship at NPR that started him in radio, he had another career. He performed magic at children’s birthday parties — an act he started honing in early adolescence.

The Center on the Developing Adolescent is a research center at UC Berkeley dedicated to advancing the understanding of adolescence as a period that has a lifelong impact on health, education, and well-being through transdisciplinary developmental science.

Every year, Technovation invites teams of adolescent girls from all over the world to learn and apply the skills needed to solve real-world problems through technology.

This episode of Like a Sponge was produced by Carol Lloyd and Charity Ferreira for GreatSchools, thanks to the support of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Sound editing and design by Christopher Ferreira. Special thanks to our managing editor, Jessica Kelmon; Lawrence Steinberg; Ron Dahl; Tara Chklovski; Zack Pitt Smith; Lisa Medoff; and all of the kids who talked with us about their Technovation projects.